I am SO sorry I didn't work on this sooner but I just started working on it today, and I got in the zone. Also one of the scenes in here was kind of inspired by a scene in the Disney Channel movie 'Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas'
Disclaimer: Ah, do I have to? I don't Percy Jackson or any other of the characters; I only own my OC's blah blah blah whatever.
P.S. I looked up Greek monsters, and a Mormo was actually one of them. I'm not kidding. Also it didn't really have a description so I just made their appearance up.
Upon waking up, I told everyone to pack up their sleeping bags immediately. "We need to get a move on." I said "Now that the word is out, it won't be long before they're on our trail."
"Yeah." Austin snorted "Thanks to Dana."
"Shut up." She angrily replied.
"Spare me the fight." I said, rolling my eyes "Just hurry up and pack."
As soon as we had everything collected, we walked through several miles of thick branches, grass, and fallen logs; guided by Dana, we managed to escape the worst nature had to offer. After numerous hours of walking, we stopped to rest in a humid swampy area. Sitting down we all took a much needed drink from our canteens.
"It's official." Austin sighed "I hate nature."
"You're telling me." Hayden groaned, trying to scratch the middle of his back 'I've got mosquito bites in places I can't even reach."
"Would anyone happen to have any itch ointment?" Pynzlee asked, scratching her arms.
"Are we any closer to the coast Dana?" Derek asked, attempting to unwind a vine that had twisted itself around his ankle.
"We should be." Dana replied "We've been hiking for hours."
"We better be." I remarked, scratching my leg "I want to get out of here before any of us catch malaria."
Dana reached into her pack and brought out a map. "Let's see. We should be pretty close to Jacksonville Beach. We could probably catch a boat there."
"One with room service?" Derek asked hopefully.
"How exactly are we going to know which island the Amazons live on?" Pynzlee asked "There are hundreds of uncharted islands; it could be any one of them."
"We'll know it when we see it." Dana answered. "Bear with it, guys. It'll all be over soon. Just another hour or so and we'll be there."
After a few more minutes of resting and grumbling, we finally started off again. "You know," I commented absentmindedly "We've been all over the countryside and we haven't been attacked by any monsters."
"I know." Derek nodded "It's weird, we have a daughter of Poseidon and a daughter of Artemis and we haven't even heard one monster."
"It's convenient." Pynzlee agreed.
"Maybe too convenient." Hayden put in.
"Give me a break Hayden." Austin said, rolling his eyes.
"Hayden might be right Austin." Dana said "It is a little too convenient. We should be knee deep in monsters by now."
"Never make assumptions." I smirked "Especially if you're a bleached blond."
"My hair isn't bleached!" Austin yelled. "And at least I'm not an air-head!"
I whirled around to face him. "I told you to stop calling me that!"
"Guys." I heard Derek's voice say.
"Well you are an air-head!" Austin shouted back, ignoring Derek.
"Guys." His voice said again.
"I'm not the one who fainted at the school talent show!" I snapped back.
"Oh, one time and marked for life!" he complained. "I'm pretty sure getting hit in the head with 5 different dodge balls messed up your brain."
"That was at one game and we still won!" I countered.
"Guys!" Derek yelled.
"What?" me and Austin exclaimed in unison.
"We're here." He answered.
Surprised, me and Austin turned around. Sure enough, there was the city of Jacksonville, Florida.
"Um excuse me." Dana said to a man passing by. "Could you tell me where we could catch a boat?"
The guy just looked at her for a second with a nervous look on his face before he took off down the sidewalk.
"Well that was awfully rude." Dana said.
"Can you blame him though?" Derek pointed out. "Look at us; we look like a bunch of hobos."
I realized he was right; just one look in the store window next to us was all the proof he needed. Our clothes torn and dirty along with our dirt and mud smudged faces and messy hair. We looked like a group of homeless people.
"Well that explains a lot." Hayden commented "We need to get cleaned up."
"Good thing we brought extra clothes." Pynzlee said. She turned to where she had set the bag down; only to find it wasn't there anymore. "What the heck?" she exclaimed "What happened?"
"Our stuff just got lifted, that's what happened." Hayden replied grimly.
"So now we have no clothes or money whatsoever?" Austin cried "Great, just great."
We all stood in silent despair for a few moments before Hayden's eyes lit up. "Maybe we can earn some money!"
"How?" Pynzlee asked bitterly "Drop on our hands and knees and beg?"
Hayden scowled "No. You've seen street performers right? We could do something like that." His eyebrows scrunched up the way they usually did when he was thinking "We just need someone who can sing and or play an instrument."
We thought a moment; and then turned toward Austin, smirking.
"Why are you guys looking at me like that?" he asked.
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"I'm not doing it!" Austin said as we all pushed him toward a crowd lingering by a large fountain.
"It's just one song you big baby." Derek growled, trying in vain to push Austin closer to the fountain "So suck it up, we need the money."
"Augh! This is taking too long." I cried in frustration; pushing him with all my strength into the crowd "Hey everybody, this kid is gonna sing a song for you!" I shouted.
Austin visibly froze as all eyes form the crowd turned on him. "Um...hi?" he said nervously. The people waited "So." He chuckled "Yeah… um."
Dana nudged him harshly from behind "Sing you idiot, you're losin' them"
Austin gulped and began singing the first verse.
If you ever leave me, baby,
Leave some morphine at my door
Cause it would take a whole lot of medication
To realize what we used to have,
We don't have it anymore.
There's no religion that could save me
No matter how long my knees are on the floor, oh
So keep in mind all the sacrifices I'm making
To keep you by my side
And keep you from walking out the door.
Cause there'll be no sunlight if I lose you, baby
There'll be no clear skies if I lose you, baby
Just like the clouds, my eyes will do the same if you walk away
Everyday, it will rain, rain, rain
I'll never be your mother's favorite
Your daddy can't even look me in the eye
Oooh, If I was in their shoes, I'd be doing the same thing
Saying there goes my little girl walking with that troublesome guy
But they're just afraid of something they can't understand
Oooh, well little darling watch me change their minds
Yea for you I'll try, I'll try, I'll try, I'll try
I'll pick up these broken pieces 'till I'm bleeding
If that'll make it right
Cause there'll be no sunlight if I lose you, baby
There'll be no clear skies if I lose you, baby
Just like the clouds, my eyes will do the same if you walk away
Everyday, it will rain, rain, rain
Ooooh, Don't just say goodbye, don't just say, goodbye
I'll pick up these broken pieces 'till I'm bleeding
If that'll make it right
Cause there'll be no sunlight if I lose you, baby
There'll be no clear skies if I lose you, baby
Just like the clouds, my eyes will do the same if you walk away
Everyday, it will rain, rain, rain...
When he finished the last verse, the crowd went absolutely nuts; as much as I hated to admit it, he was a pretty good singer. My only consolation was the fact that he had to dodge the blows of the quarters, nickels, dimes, and pennies, as well as paper dollars, being thrown at him.
When the crowd dispersed we ran over and counted the money, which came out to about 40 to 50 dollars; pretty generous crowd.
"Well we can't exactly buy new clothes with this." Said Dana "But we can get lunch if everyone orders something fairly cheap."
"We better wash up with some of the water in the fountain" Pynzlee said "Or they might just throw table scraps at us instead."
We washed the dirt and mud off our faces and off our clothes as well as we could before we went in search of a restaurant. We finally found a Denny's about 2 blocks away.
"I just remembered that all our nectar, ambrosia, and drachmas were in our bags too." Hayden said about halfway through our meal.
"Way to brighten things up Hayden." I remarked.
"Hey." Hissed Pynzlee "There's the little weasel that stole our stuff." She gestured to a girl a few tables away.
"How do you know she did it Pynz?" I asked, doubtfully.
"Because." She replied "She's wearing my shirt."
I did a double take, and saw that she was indeed wearing Pynzlee's favorite solid sea green Tee.
"And it gets worse." Pynzlee whimpered, laying her head on the table "She looks better in it than I do."
"Okay." whispered Hayden "Here's the plan. You two," He pointed to Dana and me "distract her by wearing fake mustaches and talking in Scottish accents while Pynzlee and I stealthily sneak over using our superhuman ninja skills and nab our bags. Go!"
We all looked at each other "Hayden there are at least three things wrong with your plan." I told him "One: we don't have any fake mustaches. Two: I don't know what a Scottish accent even sounds like. And three: you don't superhuman ninja skills. Or any ninja skills."
"Fine what do you propose we do?" Hayden asked me.
"Well I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to give her a piece of my mind." Pynzlee said, getting up from the table.
"Pynz, come back!" Hayden yell-whispered, he turned to me and Dana "One of you guys go after her!"
Standing up we swiftly caught up with Pynzlee as she arrived at the girl's table "Hey-" she started, before Dana pulled her back and covered her mouth.
"Excuse me." Dana chuckled nervously, while trying to hold a struggling Pynzlee "But I think you have some of our luggage?"
She looked up at us "So? What are you gonna do about it?" she sneered.
Dana looked shocked "Well, could we have them back?"
"Hm, let me think about it. No."
I turned to Dana "I'm about to introduce this little smart aleck's face to my fist." I whispered.
"Give it a minute." She whispered back "Why not? She asked.
"I don't take orders from bad children." She hissed, sounding slightly snake like.
"Um, what?" Pynzlee asked, looking weirded out.
"What's taking you guys so long?" I heard Derek say from behind us. When had the boys gotten here?
"Ah, more bad children, good I'm in a nibbling mood." She smiled, still sounding like a snake.
"What is she talking about?" I murmured to Dana.
"Hey." Dana mused, peering at her "I know what you are. You're a Mormo"
At that the girl's skin turned a light green, her ears turned pointed, her tongue forked, and her eyes yellow.
"Whoa!" Hayden cried as we all went back a step "That's just creepy."
"Yes, demigods, you've been bad children." She hissed, advancing toward us "Children are not supposed to travel alone, so you will have to be bitten!"
"Um, I think it's time to run!" I cried. Everyone took my advice and ran out of the restaurant and down to the pier.
"You can run, but you can't hide children!"
"Oh yeah? Watch us!" Austin yelled, dragging me and Dana behind some cargo boxes.
"What exactly is so bad about Mormos besides the fact that they look like creepy evil elves?" Hayden asked looking around the corner.
"They're monsters from ancient Greek mythology; they had a reputation of biting bad children."
"What's so bad about that?" Austin asked.
"Their bites are poisonous." Dana answered.
"And since they're spirits they're almost impossible to defeat unless you catch them by surprise." Derek added.
"Then we'll just catch her by surprise." Austin commented.
Just then the boxes we were hiding behind exploded to reveal the Mormo positioned right in back of us.
"Looks like the tables have turned demigods." She laughed "How about we play a game? It makes the chase more interesting. For me." Laughing, she unexpectedly charged Hayden, knocking him to the ground and holding him by the neck. 'How about we start with you child of Hermes? You've been the naughtiest of all your friends."
She turned to us "And you can try and save him. Won't that be fun?"
"You're twisted!" I shouted, and took of my necklace, transforming it into my silver bow and arrows.
"Tsk, tsk that's not part of the game." She said, pressing down harder on Hayden's neck as his eyes started to water.
"New rules." Derek growled, taking out his sword. Dana and Austin took out their weapon too. Pynzlee armed herself with the nearest stick.
"Now let go of my friend." I threatened, taking aim to her face.
"I was going to save you for last, but you're being very difficult."
"I'm flexible." I sneered.
"Uh guys?" Hayden wheezed "Maybe… a little…less talking... I'm-" he went into a forced coughing fit "-Being choked here." He sounded slightly shrill on the word 'here'.
The Mormo's eyes narrowed "Then you're next." She hissed.
"And you're monster dust!" Dana yelled throwing a disc made of celestial bronze at the Mormo.
The monster was quick however, and jumped out of the way, taking Hayden with her.
"Do that one more time, and I guarantee you won't live long enough to shoot that arrow." I swear Hayden's face was starting to turn blue, when all of a sudden a dagger flew out of the air and into the Mormo's back. She screamed in agony as she exploded into dust, leaving behind Pynzlee's shirt and a disoriented Hayden.
"Are you okay?" Pynzlee cried, running over to Hayden who was having a violent coughing fit.
"Do I-" he took a deep breath "Look okay?" He turned to face her "A stick Pynzlee?" He wheezed "You were going to save me using…a stick?"
"Well his personality is still intact." Derek commented. "But you're probably going to have a few bruises on that neck." He told Hayden.
Dana picked up the knife that had killed the Mormo. Her eyes widened "I recognize this."
Austin grabbed the ruined sea green t-shirt and held it out to Pynzlee "Here's your shirt."
"Uh, no thanks" Pynzlee said, pushing his hand away "I'll just get another one when we get back to Camp Half-Blood."
"Which is right now." Said a voice form behind us.
Surprised, we all turned around to see Victor Wins from the Nike cabin along with Agatha Good from the Hermes cabin and Laura Buschmann from the Apollo cabin.
"What are you guys doing here?" I asked them, shocked.
"What does it look like we're doing?" Laura said "We're here to take you back to camp."
"No way." Austin replied "How'd you guys get here so fast anyway?"
"The flying chariot." Dana told him "It can get from half way across the country in a matter of hours."
"I'm astonished Dana." Victor said, raising an eyebrow "You usually don't break the rules." He turned to Derek "However I'm not surprised that you're here."
"Chiron sent us to bring you guys back." Agatha told us, she turned to Pynzlee "Percy's really worried about you Pynzlee."
"When you get back to camp, tell him that I can take care of myself."
"Why would I have to tell him that?" Agatha asked, looking confused.
"Because." She started backing up next to the pier "We're not going!" she shouted as a wave of water came up from the pier and crashed onto everyone.
"Come on!" Pynzlee yelled, running toward the boats. We all followed her example as we heard Laura, Agatha, and Victor recover from their surprise and start to run after us.
"Where are we going?" Hayden asked.
"Just follow me!" she answered as she neared a cargo boat. She ran up to a guy dressed in a sailor's uniform "Excuse me where's this ship going."
"Brazil, but-"
"Works for me!" she cried, pushing him aside and running up the boardwalk.
"Hey you can't- ah!" he yelled as we pushed past him knocking him into the water.
"What do we do now?" Hayden asked.
"Which way did they go?" I heard Victor's voice say.
"These boxes need to go over here." Said another voice, which was probably one of the ship's workers.
"We hide." I said plainly "And fast."
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